war spending rarely steps in the way of space spending. liberals hate the space program the most. they would much rather spend the money on healtcare and education. war as it turns out, has a lot of interest in space spending.
i dont think so. its not research. healthcare is perhaps the worst investment possible in the sense that we are just throwing the largest chunk of our budget towards old people who are going to die anyways. 2 trillion of the stuff and growing faster than our income, meanwhile we spend about 12 bil on NASA in total.
education? have no idea where that spending is going to